EP2077410A1 - Système de connexion pour systèmes de transport de fluide - Google Patents

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EP2077410A1
EP2077410A1 EP08170565A EP08170565A EP2077410A1 EP 2077410 A1 EP2077410 A1 EP 2077410A1 EP 08170565 A EP08170565 A EP 08170565A EP 08170565 A EP08170565 A EP 08170565A EP 2077410 A1 EP2077410 A1 EP 2077410A1
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Otfried Schwarzkopf
Reiner Mitterer
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L21/00—Joints with sleeve or socket
    • F16L21/02—Joints with sleeve or socket with elastic sealing rings between pipe and sleeve or between pipe and socket, e.g. with rolling or other prefabricated profiled rings
    • F16L21/035—Joints with sleeve or socket with elastic sealing rings between pipe and sleeve or between pipe and socket, e.g. with rolling or other prefabricated profiled rings placed around the spigot end before connection
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16J—PISTONS; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS
    • F16J15/00—Sealings
    • F16J15/02—Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces
    • F16J15/06—Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces with solid packing compressed between sealing surfaces
    • F16J15/062—Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces with solid packing compressed between sealing surfaces characterised by the geometry of the seat
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L19/00—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts
    • F16L19/02—Pipe ends provided with collars or flanges, integral with the pipe or not, pressed together by a screwed member
    • F16L19/0212—Pipe ends provided with collars or flanges, integral with the pipe or not, pressed together by a screwed member using specially adapted sealing means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L19/00—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts
    • F16L19/02—Pipe ends provided with collars or flanges, integral with the pipe or not, pressed together by a screwed member
    • F16L19/0212—Pipe ends provided with collars or flanges, integral with the pipe or not, pressed together by a screwed member using specially adapted sealing means
    • F16L19/0218—Pipe ends provided with collars or flanges, integral with the pipe or not, pressed together by a screwed member using specially adapted sealing means comprising only sealing rings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L19/00—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts
    • F16L19/04—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts using additional rigid rings, sealing directly on at least one pipe end, which is flared either before or during the making of the connection
    • F16L19/043—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts using additional rigid rings, sealing directly on at least one pipe end, which is flared either before or during the making of the connection with additional sealing means
    • F16L19/046—Joints in which sealing surfaces are pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts using additional rigid rings, sealing directly on at least one pipe end, which is flared either before or during the making of the connection with additional sealing means consisting of a soft ring
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L21/00—Joints with sleeve or socket
    • F16L21/02—Joints with sleeve or socket with elastic sealing rings between pipe and sleeve or between pipe and socket, e.g. with rolling or other prefabricated profiled rings
    • F16L21/03—Joints with sleeve or socket with elastic sealing rings between pipe and sleeve or between pipe and socket, e.g. with rolling or other prefabricated profiled rings placed in the socket before connection

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  • the present invention relates to a connection system for fluid-carrying systems, such as lines, fittings or aggregates, which are intended to guide a pressurized fluid with respect to a comparison pressure, in particular for carbon dioxide-carrying systems, comprising a first coupling part, such as a housing part, along an axle in a receiving opening of the first coupling part with a shaft insertable second coupling part, such as a plug part, and at least one existing elastomeric peripheral seal, which is arranged in a receiving space which is circumferentially formed in one of the two coupling parts and in the axial direction at one end an annular step of the receiving space forming coupling part is limited, wherein for the peripheral seal in the receiving space a compensation volume for a reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length of the peripheral seal is present.
  • connection systems for fluid-carrying systems are known in many designs and for various fields of application. That's how it describes EP-A-1 351 006 - and similarly the US-A-5 161 834 -
  • a receiving part of a known fluid plug-in coupling which is designed in particular for receiving a standardized plug part, a so-called SAE plug.
  • This plug is a piece of pipe which has an annular collar on its outer circumference to form a radial holding step.
  • fluid is meant any, hydraulic or gaseous flow medium.
  • the known receiving part consists of a sleeve housing with an insertion opening for the plug part and with a holding device for releasably fixing the inserted plug part.
  • the holding device mounted in the sleeve housing holding member with radially elastically deformable holding portions for latching behind a radial holding stage of the plug member and a locking means relative to the sleeve housing axially slidably supported salutary release element.
  • the release element engages with an inner release portion in the insertion and acts to release against the holding portions of the support member.
  • the latching means holding the release element are arranged on the outer circumference of the sleeve housing.
  • a sealing arrangement consisting of two sealing rings and a spacer arranged between them.
  • the seal assembly is held in the socket housing axially in plug-removal direction by a Abschilussbuchse, this termination socket is in turn held axially fixed by means of locking means directly in the sleeve housing.
  • a positive engagement of the terminating bush in the sleeve housing and at the same time a supporting abutment of the annular collar of the plug can be provided on the terminating bushing. Due to the seal arrangement, the sealing rings are fixed axially immovable both in terms of the sleeve housing and in terms of the plug part.
  • non-generic fluid plug-in couplings represent systems that are not suitable for producing a low-permeability coupling connection for CO 2- leading systems, because these systems do not allow high radial compression. At high pressures and temperatures, among other things, therefore, no optimal gas tightness can be achieved because the sleeve housing and the axially displaceably held therein release element can deform undesirably.
  • connection system for fluid-carrying systems of the type mentioned is from the WO-A-2006/051071 known.
  • this known connection system of the receiving space which is circumferentially formed in one of the two coupling parts and which receives the existing elastomeric peripheral seal
  • a groove which is circumferentially formed in one of the two coupling parts and has a groove bottom and two groove flanks.
  • One of the groove flanks forms the receiving space in the axial direction single end limiting Ring step.
  • the problem is based on creating a connection system, which has a high reliability and in the production of the coupling connection has increased ease of installation while ensuring a small amount of enforced by the peripheral seal fluid in the operating state.
  • the latter includes, in particular, to prevent that the peripheral seal during assembly for each - in terms of minimal permeation deliberately selected - large contact pressure and contact length after a relatively short time with the contact surfaces of the coupling parts, in particular on its outer periphery with an inner circumference of the housing part designed as a coupling part , due to an increase in the static friction coefficient "sticking".
  • the WO-A-2006/051071 provides, therefore, that in the groove means for mechanically inhibiting an axial movement of the peripheral seal are arranged, which are designed such that the circumferential seal - both when the one coupling part is inserted with the shaft in the receiving opening of the other coupling part, as well as in an oppositely acting relative return movement of the coupling parts to each other, is held in the position in which closes the circumferential seal in the operating state, the gap of the receiving opening and rests with an axially directed contact surface on a groove side lying on the side of the gap to be sealed.
  • there is a distance to an opposite groove flank so that the circumferential seal is arranged asymmetrically in the groove and thus a compensation volume for a reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length of the peripheral seal is present.
  • the present invention is based on the object to provide a connection system for fluid-carrying systems, such as lines, fittings or aggregates of the type described above, which while maintaining an advantageously low fluid permeation, in particular ensuring a small amount of enforced by the peripheral seal carbon dioxide , And a high reliability and the known mounting advantages in the production of the coupling connection has an even greater ease of installation and a structurally simpler structure.
  • the compensating volume is provided by a ring arrangement arranged in the receiving space, which in one of the ring stage in the axial direction at the other end opposite opening of the receiving space and arranged with the receiving space forming coupling part non-positively and / or positively connected.
  • "provided” is understood to mean that the compensation volume in the receiving space is formed directly on the ring arrangement and / or released by an axial displacement within the ring arrangement.
  • means for mechanically inhibiting axial movement of the peripheral seal are not necessary.
  • the design effort in the production of the coupling parts is thus reduced.
  • a groove for receiving the peripheral seal is advantageously not provided in the coupling part.
  • a taking place under deformation of the peripheral seal application of an optionally provided axial Vorpresskaft or axial preload can be done easily, since the ring element when inserting slightly into contact with the peripheral seal can be brought and then pressed to produce the Vorpresskraft, this state by the final non-positive and / or positive releasable connection of the ring member with the receiving space forming coupling part, which inhibits axial return movement of peripheral seal and ring element, are fixed in a simple manner can.
  • the circumferential seal is firmly positioned in the installation space, wherein an axial clearance of the peripheral seal is completely or at least almost completely excluded.
  • connection system in the context of the invention are different embodiments - for example, with one or two axially successively arranged circumferential seals and / or with training of the receiving space either in the housing or in the plug part - possible.
  • the required gas-tightness and high functionality of the connection system according to the invention is ensured because the peripheral seal can each abut a large axially extending contact length of the coupling parts, the fluid contact with the seal, in particular by taking place only on the gap to be closed Gas inlet or outlet, is severely limited and especially because there is a, preferably fixed by the pre-pressing, defined mounting position of the peripheral seal.
  • a compensation volume on an annular part such as a ring member, a spacer ring or a compensation ring, as a partial volume of the receiving space for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length of the peripheral seal is trained.
  • a compensating volume of the ring assembly can advantageously a volume fraction of the seal, which occurs in an increase in volume of the peripheral seal, as occurs in the operating state at a room temperature elevated temperature or by swelling under the influence of the fluid or due to the increased pressure recorded.
  • a volume fraction of the seal in the first compensation volume which occurs as a result of the deformation of the circumferential seal under the influence of the radial and optionally axial prepressing forces, can or should be absorbed after completion of the assembly.
  • the first compensation volume can or should therefore be preferred - be it in the assembled state, be it in the operating state - always more or less filled. Its degree of filling is then greater than zero.
  • the inherent elasticity of the elastomeric circumferential seal can act in the sense of a spring counteracting the prepressing forces.
  • a compensation ring arranged as a partial volume of the receiving space releases a compensation volume for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length.
  • this compensation volume can be a volume fraction of the seal, which occurs at an increase in volume of the peripheral seal, as occurs in the operating condition at a room temperature elevated temperature or by swelling under the influence of the fluid or by the increased pressure, advantageously in the reversible Case of a reduction in volume of the peripheral seal by a change of said factors again closes the compensation volume under the action of the spring element.
  • the spacer ring itself - as a partial volume of the receiving space - a compensation volume for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length of the circumferential seals is constructive.
  • Fig. 1 shows first in a first embodiment, an inventive connection system for fluid-carrying systems, such as lines, fittings or aggregates, the Guiding one with respect to a comparison pressure p 2 , such as the ambient pressure, increased pressure p 1 is applied fluid determined.
  • a comparison pressure p 2 such as the ambient pressure
  • connection system which is designed in particular for carbon dioxide-carrying systems, comprises a first coupling part 1, as shown - a housing part, and a second coupling part 2, as shown - a plug part.
  • connection system according to the invention comprises at least one existing of an elastomer peripheral seal 3, which is arranged in a receiving space 4 between the first coupling part 1 and the second coupling part 2.
  • the second coupling part 2 can be inserted with a shaft 5 along an axis X-X into a receiving opening 6 of the first coupling part 1.
  • the insertion direction is designated by the reference symbol S.
  • the receiving space 4 is circumferentially in one of the two coupling parts 1, 2 - in the first embodiment of the invention in the plug, ie in the second coupling part 2 - formed and is bounded in the axial direction XX unilaterally by an annular step 7 of the receiving space 4 forming coupling part 2 ,
  • the peripheral seal 3 assumes a position in the operating state in which it closes a gap 8 of the receiving opening 6 while deforming and generating a radial pre-pressing force F v , thereby abutting the coupling parts 1, 2 via a contact length KL running in the axial direction XX.
  • This contact length KL is for reasons of clarity only in Fig. 1 designated. Taking into account the possible thermal expansion of the peripheral seal 3, an extrusion into the gap 8 should be avoided as far as possible during the sealing of the gap 8.
  • Both the first coupling part 1, so the housing, and the second coupling part 2, so the plug may preferably be made of metallic materials, in particular of aluminum or high-alloy stainless steel alloys.
  • the peripheral seals 3 may for example consist of a polymeric fluorine-carbon compound, of synthetic rubber, such as silicone rubber, NBR or H-NBR, PUR, EPDM, SBR, o. ⁇ ., And in particular have a high proportion of fillers.
  • the Shore A hardness may preferably be in the range of 70 to 90.
  • a permeation through the peripheral seal 3 determining surface permeation length ratio A E / KL is formed by a permeation-effective partial peripheral surface A E of the peripheral seal 3 to the contact length KL.
  • the partial circumferential surface A E is arranged in the vicinity of the gap 7 and is characterized by the in Fig. 1 (and also in Fig. 4 and 10 ) in bold, in particular not applied to the coupling parts 1, 2, arc line BL of the compressed, radial cross-sectional area A R of the deformed circumferential seal 3 determined.
  • a small ratio of the radial cross-sectional area A R of the deformed circumferential seal 3 perpendicular to the axial direction to the contact length KL can be achieved by a (radial) compression V of the circumferential seal 3 in a range of more than 15 percent, preferably more than 25 percent, more preferably more than 30 percent, in particular more than 50 percent.
  • a compensation volume is provided.
  • a ring member 10 of the ring assembly is arranged, which with the receiving space 4 forming coupling part 2 force and / or positively releasably connected.
  • the ring element 10th can be locked in particular with the receiving space 4 forming coupling part 2.
  • the peripheral seal 3 is arranged under deformation and preferably generating an axial Vorpresskaft F A in the receiving space 4 that a reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length of the peripheral seal 3 against the direction of action of the axial Vorpresskraft F A in the receiving space 4 is possible.
  • the axial length of the peripheral seal 3 is only in the enlarged views of Fig. 4 and 10 , denoted by the reference symbol L.
  • the permeation-determining partial circumferential area A E remains small-in particular, it should not be greater than half the value, preferably not greater than one-fifth of the direction perpendicular to the axial direction XX, by a dashed line in FIG Fig. 1 indicated cross-sectional area A V of the deformed circumferential seal 3 - it is necessary that the peripheral seal 3 occupies a position in the receiving space 4, in which the circumferential seal 3 rests with an axially directed contact surface FA on the annular step 7 of the receiving space 4 forming coupling part 2. This can be secured according to the invention by the axial pre-pressing in a simple manner.
  • the length of the arc line BL assumes the value of the gap width s of the gap 8 to be closed in the minimum case in the case of vanishing arc curvature in this position.
  • a cross section A U of the unpressed circumferential seal 3 (see FIGS. 12 and 13 ), the depth T of the receiving space 4 and the gap width s and a length NL between the annular step 7 of the coupling part 2 and the ring member 10 are coordinated such that the permeation-effective partial peripheral surface A E is independent of the cord thickness SD of the unpressed circumferential seal 3 (see also FIGS. 12 and 13 ).
  • the arc line BL should not be longer than half the value, preferably one quarter of the value of the sum of the gap width s and the depth T of the receiving space 4 determined by the ring step 7.
  • a compensation volume which is hereinafter referred to as the first compensation volume 11, for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length L of the peripheral seal 3 is formed.
  • the first compensation volume 11 a volume fraction of the peripheral seal 3, which occurs at an increase in volume of the peripheral seal 3, as occurs by thermal expansion, swelling under the influence of the fluid or possibly also by pressure influences.
  • a volume fraction of the circumferential seal 3 may already be accommodated in the first compensation volume 11.
  • This volume fraction is the volume fraction that occurs due to the deformation of the circumferential seal 3 under the influence of the radial and axial pre-pressing forces F V , F A. An axial sealing clearance is thereby prevented after assembly with advantage.
  • the first compensation volume 11, which - as shown - is preferably formed by an annular ring 12 of the ring member 10 limited annular space in the receiving space 4, is therefore - be it in the assembled state, be it in the operating state of the system according to the invention - always at least partially filled the degree of filling can change according to a current, for example, determined by pressure, temperature and medium, operating condition.
  • the ring element 10 may be designed slotted in the sense of radial expandability and compressibility for simplified assembly, in particular in the axial direction X-X or obliquely thereto, but preferably so that it is closed in the assembled state. In this way it is ensured that the adjacent circumferential seal 3 does not come into contact with a gap in the ring element 10 or could be trapped or damaged by it.
  • the ring member 10 may - as already mentioned - with the receiving space 4 forming coupling part 2 in particular be locked, what it - as shown - a suitable locking element 13, such as a latching nose, and the coupling part 2 may have a complementary locking element 14, such as a locking groove.
  • a suitable locking element 13 such as a latching nose
  • the coupling part 2 may have a complementary locking element 14, such as a locking groove.
  • An enlarged view of the ring member 10 as a single part is also FIGS. 15 and 16 refer to.
  • the mentioned gap is in Fig. 16 designated by the reference numeral 12a.
  • FIG. 2 illustrated second embodiment of a connection system according to the invention differs from the first embodiment in that in the receiving space 4 two circumferential seals 3a, 3b axially arranged one behind the other and arranged by an axially displaceable spacer ring 15 - as a next to the ring member 10 provided further annular part of the ring assembly - are separated from each other.
  • this spacer ring 15 there is an intermediate pressure denoted by reference numeral p z , which is greater than the comparison pressure p 2 , but smaller than the increased pressure p 1 in the fluid-carrying system.
  • the first circumferential seal 3a is thus between the ring member 10, on which - the circumferential seal 3a facing - the first compensation volume 11 is formed, and chambered the spacer ring 15, while the second circumferential seal 3b chambered between the spacer ring 15 and the annular step 7 of the second coupling part 2 is.
  • the spacer ring 15 Due to its free mobility by an amount in Fig. 2 is denoted by the reference numeral dx, along the axis XX of the spacer ring 15 is capable of a partial volume of the receiving space 4, a compensation volume, which is referred to as the second compensation volume 16, for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length L of the circumferential seals 3a , 3b, in particular the length L of the second circumferential seal 3b, release.
  • the spacer ring 15 shifts in its own axial movement to release the second compensation volume 16 and the first circumferential direction 3a, in the axial direction XX on the opening 9 of the receiving space 4, in which the ring element 10 is arranged.
  • this movement of the first circumferential seal 3 a is converted into a deformation of the first circumferential seal 3 a into the first compensation volume 11, which is formed on the ring element 10.
  • To this Way is advantageously compensated for the increase in length of the two circumferential seals 3a, 3b simultaneously.
  • the first circumferential seal 3a acts on the spacer ring 15 in a restoring manner due to its immanent shape or inherent elasticity and the axial pre-pressing force F A , so that the second compensation volume 16 is closed again.
  • Media tightness and functional reliability are guaranteed unimpaired, since neither the contact length KL, nor the permeation-determining partial circumferential area A E , nor the radial compression V change adversely in these processes. Instead, it comes with a length increase on the contrary to an advantageous increase in the contact length KL of the circumferential seals 3a, 3b, with each of the radial and axial pre-pressing force F V , F A does not change significantly.
  • the receiving space 4 in the receiving space 4 also two circumferential seals 3a, 3b arranged axially one behind the other and separated by an axially arranged (XX) displaceable spacer ring 15 therebetween.
  • a (first) compensation volume is not provided on the ring element 10 in the opening 9, but that the spacer ring 15 as a partial volume of the receiving space 4, a third compensating volume 17 for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length L of the peripheral seal 3a, 3b is trained.
  • the circumferential seals are chambered as in the second embodiment of the invention.
  • the spacer ring 15 Due to its free mobility by an amount in Fig. 3 again denoted by the reference numeral dx, along the axis XX, the spacer ring 15 is first, as a partial volume of the receiving space 4 the above beschreibiebene second compensation volume 16 for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length L of the peripheral seals 3a, 3b, this time however, in particular the length L of the first peripheral seal 3a, release.
  • the spacer ring 15 deforms in its displacement to release the second compensation volume 16, the second circumferential direction 3b in the axial direction XX, in such a way that the second circumferential seal 3b is forced into the third compensation volume 17, which is formed on the spacer ring 15.
  • the third compensation volume 17 is formed by an annular space 18 of the spacer ring 15 bounded, lying adjacent to the second peripheral seal 3b annulus in the receiving space 4. In this way, the increase in length of the two circumferential seals 3a, 3b is compensated for at the same time with advantage.
  • the second circumferential seal 3b acts due to the immanent elasticity under the action of the compression restoring to the spacer ring 15, so that with a return shift in the direction of the ring member 10 through the second compensation volume 16 again is closed, wherein the second circumferential seal 3b can withdraw from the third compensation volume.
  • media tightness and reliability remain - as described in the second embodiment of the invention - unimpaired.
  • FIG. 5 illustrated fourth embodiment of a connection system according to the invention is similar to the structure and operation of the third embodiment of the invention, but the difference is that the receiving space 4 not in the second coupling part 2, ie the plug, but in the first coupling part 1, the housing formed is.
  • the corresponding annular step is designated by the reference numeral 7a.
  • a ring element 10 can be used, as it is in Fig. 6 is shown.
  • This ring element 10 can with the recording space 4 forming the coupling part 1 - as described in the foregoing - again preferably latch, what it a suitable locking element 13a, such as a latching nose, and the coupling part 1 a complementary locking element 14a, such as a locking groove have can.
  • the latching element 13a lies radially outward on the ring element 10 and the complementary latching element 14a radially inwards on the coupling part 1.
  • the ring element 10 which may be made of plastic, may advantageously be designed such that it consists of two axially successive sections 19, 20, wherein one of the two sections 20, on which the latching element 13a is located, as a segmented radially resilient Area and the other, designed to rest against the peripheral seal 3a particular section 19 is designed as a solid closed area.
  • the ring element should be 10 - see Fig. 5 - be dimensioned so that when the second coupling part 2 is inserted into the first coupling part 1, it can not solve spontaneously or under the effect of operating and environmental conditions.
  • the latching element 13a should have a height a which is greater than a gap width b between the inner diameter of the ring element 10 and the outer diameter of the second coupling part 2.
  • Fig. 7 shown fifth embodiment of a connection system according to the invention is similar to the first embodiment, but it has two circumferential seals 3a, 3b, which are not separated from each other by a spacer ring 15 as in the second to fourth embodiments of the invention.
  • the structure of the system is thus simpler.
  • the circumferential seals 3a, 3b may have a different geometry, consist of different materials and / or different technical parameters, such as Shore hardness, permeation behavior, etc., have. This allows a more differentiated adaptation to the conditions of the Abdchtung (fluid type, pressure, temperature, etc.) take place.
  • the compensation volume 11 is formed in this embodiment as in the Fig. 1 shown.
  • Fig. 8 shows a connection system according to the invention in a sixth embodiment, this embodiment with a peripheral seal 3 - as well as the other in Fig. 9 to 11 illustrated embodiments with two circumferential seals 3a, 3b - represent the above-mentioned second basic preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the axial pre-pressing force F A generated by an amount dxx axially displaceable compensation ring 22 is arranged as a further annular part of the ring assembly, which releases as a partial volume of the receiving space 4, a fourth compensation volume 23 for the reversible or irreversible increase in the axial length L of the peripheral seal 3.
  • FIG. 9 shown seventh embodiment of the connection system according to the invention is similar, which relates to the presence of two circumferential seals 3a, 3b and the presence of the spacer ring 15, by the axial displacement dx creates a compensation volume of the type, as referred to above as the second compensation volume 16, the second embodiment of the invention ,
  • this embodiment is similar to the sixth embodiment of the invention. Their mode of action is corresponding.
  • Fig. 10 for the seventh embodiment of the invention Similar to in Fig. 4 for the third embodiment of the invention are in Fig. 10 for the seventh embodiment of the invention by the arrows P illustrates the permeation paths of the fluid, it being understood that the above-mentioned partial peripheral area A E or the present there arc length BL permeationsbered.
  • Fig. 11 illustrated eighth embodiment differs from the seventh embodiment of the connection system according to the invention in that - as in the Fig. 5 illustrated fourth embodiment - the receiving space 4 not in the second coupling part 2, so the plug, but in the first coupling part 1, the housing is formed.
  • Fig. 12 to 14 serve to illustrate the sequence of advantageously simple assembly of a connection system according to the invention, in particular in an embodiment as shown in Fig. 3 is shown.
  • the second circumferential seal 3b, the spacer ring 15, the first circumferential seal 3a and the ring member 10 are pushed onto the shaft 5 of the second coupling part 2 in a first assembly step counter to the insertion direction S sequentially.
  • the ring member 10 is non-positively and / or positively releasably connected to the second coupling part 2, in particular latched. Thereafter, the so stocked shaft 5 - as Fig. 12 shows - inserted in the insertion direction S in the receiving opening 6 of the first coupling part 1.
  • the first coupling part 1 may have an insertion bevel 24 on its inner circumference.
  • the ring element 10th can - how out Fig. 17 visible - have an insertion bevel 24a.
  • Fig. 13 shows - initially with deformation of the first circumferential seal 3a, the generation of a radial pre-pressing force F V and possibly also an axial pre-pressing force F A.
  • the first circumferential seal 3a is already in the receiving space 4 and fills the axial space between the spacer ring 15 and the ring member 10.
  • FIGS. 15 and 16 provide as an alternative Fig. 6 referring to the formation of the receiving space 4 in the first coupling part 1, as an individual part of an embodiment of the inventively provided ring member 10, as may be preferred in the embodiments for use when the receiving space 4 is formed in the second coupling part 2.
  • Fig. 1 Referenced.
  • the ring element 10 is different than in FIGS. 15 and 16 or as in Fig. 1 . 2 . 3 etc. trained.
  • the ring element 10 fulfills here only a pure holding function and has for this purpose the locking element 13, wherein it is slotted in the sense of a simple assembly (slot 12).
  • the ring element 10 has no compensation volume.
  • an additional ring is provided, referred to herein as the end ring 10a becomes. This end ring 10a is not slotted and is located between a first peripheral seal 3a and the ring member 10.
  • the end ring 10a has on the side of the peripheral seal 3a a fifth compensation volume 11a, which is formed in the same manner as the first compensation volume 11.
  • the corresponding ring stage is denoted by the reference numeral 12b.
  • the end ring 10a bears against a corresponding annular surface of the ring element 10 with an annular surface which is not described in more detail.
  • the end ring 10a can be pushed for mounting in a simple manner on the shaft 5 of the second coupling part 2, wherein by the pairing slotted ring element 10 / unslotted end ring 10a, the structurally somewhat more complex design of the ring element, as in FIGS. 15 and 16 is shown simplified.
  • the ninth embodiment has a structural design as the second embodiment of the connection system according to the invention.
  • Fig. 18 shows a mounting device 25, which is advantageously used in the assembly of a connection system according to the invention.
  • connection system the representation relates in particular by way of example to an embodiment as described in US Pat Fig. 2 is shown.
  • the mounting device 25, which can also be considered as a pre-fabricated as with those in the receiving space 4 to be positioned components 3b, 15, 3a, 10 can be used to the reference to Fig.
  • first assembly step which provides the successive sliding of the second circumferential seal 3b, the spacer ring 15, the first peripheral seal 3a and the ring member 10 on the shaft 5 of the second coupling part 2 as a plurality of sub-steps, at the site, such as in a motor vehicle manufacturer in the production of the cooling circuit of a vehicle, in fact only in one assembly step.
  • the mounting device 25 consists of a tube piece 26, which has a plurality of its inner space 27 surrounding, circularly arranged, extending in the axial direction XX, radially elastically deformable fingers 28.
  • the fingers 28 are formed by the introduction of slots 29 in a tube wall 30 of the pipe section 26.
  • By the fingers 28 is at the - at least in their mouth region - radial elastically expandable pipe wall in this way a wall-near annular space 31 formed in the interior 27 of the pipe section 26 on the free end of the fingers 28 opposite side by a for the components to be mounted 3b, 15, 3a, 10, in particular directly for the ring element 10th , acting as a stop ring stage 32 is limited.
  • the axial length LR of the annular space 31 is determined by the sum of the axial lengths of the ring element 10, the two non-pressed circumferential seals 3a, 3b and the spacer ring 15. It can advantageously - as shown - at the mouth of the pipe section 26, where the free ends of the fingers are 28, a projecting from the pipe wall 30 inwardly projecting retaining lug 33 of the respective finger 28, which is intended to the components to be mounted 10, 3a, 3b, 15 in the annular space 31 hold.
  • the components 10, 3a, 3b, 15 in the reverse order, as with reference to Fig. 12 has been carried out, inserted into the interior space 27 and thereby introduced into the annular space 31 on the fingers 28, wherein they are fixed between the annular step 32 and the holding lug 33 of the mounting device 25, as shown in FIG Fig. 18 is shown.
  • the unit prefabricated in this way is storable and transportable.
  • these prefabricated unit and the second coupling part 2 are pushed into each other in the axial direction X-X.
  • the tube wall 30 of the mounting device 25 surrounds the coupling part 2 on the outside, and the fingers 28 transmit by being deformed by the insertion into the interior 34 of the second coupling part 2 radially outward, the second circumferential seal 3b, the spacer ring 15, the first peripheral seal 3a and the ring member 10 in the receiving space 4 on the shaft 5 of the second coupling part second
  • an insertion bevel 35 which, when it comes into contact with the annular step 7 of the second coupling part 2, the mouth-side widening of the pipe wall 30 and the fingers 28 can favor , so that the components, in particular the second circumferential seal 3b, are released by the retaining lug 33.
  • the mounting device 25 can be removed from the coupling part 2 by retraction.
  • the latching force, which holds the ring element 10 on the shaft 5 is greater than the holding force which is exerted by the holding lug 33 on the components, so that the components 3b, 15, 3a, 10 remain on the shaft 5.
  • the mounting security is increased because the successive sliding does not have to be done directly at the mounting point and therefore the risk of swapping the order of the components to be mounted 3b, 15, 3a, 10 decreases.
  • the components 3b, 15, 3a, 10 are better protected against damage during transport or during assembly.
  • the pipe section 26 freed from the components 3b, 15, 3a, 10 can be returned and re-equipped as a prefabricated unit.
  • Fig. 20 which shows a peripheral seal 3 in a mounting situation, as for example for the second circumferential seal 3b in Fig. 14 is present, illustrates that in the assembled state no symmetrical stress distribution is present.
  • the dark spots 38, 39 in the region of the gap 8 to be sealed and in the area of the compensation volume 17 illustrate a mechanical stress relief which has taken place at these points.
  • the invention is not limited to the illustrated embodiments. It also encompasses all embodiments which have the same effect in the sense of the invention and nevertheless permit axial mobility or length change in an assembly-friendly constructive design using the described ring arrangement for the circumferential seal (s) 3, 3a, 3b, even in the presence of an axial pre-pressing force F A , So it is z. B. possible that the above with first, second, third, fourth and fifth compensation volume 11, 16, 17, 23, 11a designated subvolumes of the receiving space 4 in different - can occur - also in combinations - not shown.
  • annular space 7 delimiting the receiving space 4 it is possible that it does not form the single step, but is supplemented by one or more further steps.
  • the mounting device can also be structurally designed in such a way as to reverse the conditions described above in such a way that an assembly the in Fig. 5 and 11 illustrated embodiments of the connection system according to the invention is possible.
  • the invention has hitherto not been limited to the combination of features defined in the independent claim, but may also be defined by any other combination of specific features of all the individual features disclosed overall. This means that in principle virtually every individual feature of the independent claim can be omitted or replaced by at least one individual feature disclosed elsewhere in the application. In this respect, the claims are to be understood merely as a first formulation attempt for an invention.

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